Funding approved for flood control study

Federal funding recently announced by Sen. Byron Dorgan will start the process of studying flood control measures on the James and Sheyenne river systems, according to officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “The $150,000 will do a reconnaissance study,” said Paul Johnston, public information officer for the Corps of Engineers in Omaha. “This would look at the collected information; it would look at all the damages, all the way down to LaMoure (on the James River).”

By: Keith Norman, The Jamestown Sun